https://padlet.com/lkennedy8/Jan_Feb_2017 READ & learn something NEW every month here on our eNewsboard. -- Created by Teacher Librarians Linda Kennedy, KAMS and Dany'l Van Someren, PGHS. en-us 2017-01-04 20:18:47 UTC 2023-03-27 13:39:50 UTC hello@padlet.com lkennedy8 https://padlet.com/lkennedy8/Jan_Feb_2017/wish/145380702 Common Core Standards encourages all students to be career and/or college ready by building necessary informational text reading skills to prepare them for now and future employment . Educators can do this by providing engaging digital texts--in class or assigned as homework-- that are motivating and meaningful. The task of teaching informational reading skills does not rely on ELA teachers as ALL educators are teachers of reading.  Skim and click into the digital resources below to try information text related to Math, Science, Politics, Current Events, Social Issues, and more!]]> 2017-01-04 20:37:45 UTC https://padlet.com/lkennedy8/Jan_Feb_2017/wish/145380702 lkennedy8 https://padlet.com/lkennedy8/Jan_Feb_2017/wish/145381985 Google is the #1 search engine, but did you know it also has an extensive news repository?  A searchable archive of newspapers from around the world, dating all the way back to the 1700s, you can easily search topics or specific time periods to provide students primary sources. Ex. use...Divide US History class into 1/2 North vs. 1/2 South groups. Students search an archived newspaper from the North about the Civil Rights Movement, and the South group read the Southern perspective by the contemporary news reporters (visa-versa). Google News Archive allows access to first-hand accounts to analyze and create their own perceptions of events during a particular time. ]]> 2017-01-04 20:44:00 UTC https://padlet.com/lkennedy8/Jan_Feb_2017/wish/145381985 lkennedy8 https://padlet.com/lkennedy8/Jan_Feb_2017/wish/145382146 TweenTribune is a daily news site for  teens – where you'll find the most compelling, relevant and interesting news for K-12 students, selected by professional journalists.
The website encourages tweens/teens to seek out and develop a daily news reading habit...because our democracy depends upon a well-informed citizens.

]]> 2017-01-04 20:44:34 UTC https://padlet.com/lkennedy8/Jan_Feb_2017/wish/145382146 lkennedy8 https://padlet.com/lkennedy8/Jan_Feb_2017/wish/145384290 Access a broad range of articles--science, business, arts & culture, US and world news--rewritten in differentiated reading levels to encourage students to read, learn, and think together as a class.  Each article provides a thought provoking discussion question that teachers can use to engage class discussion.  Or, you can also participate in the online discourse on the same question (online participation requires a member login). The goal is to get students engaged in reading AND in discussion about what they've just read.]]> 2017-01-04 20:55:44 UTC https://padlet.com/lkennedy8/Jan_Feb_2017/wish/145384290 lkennedy8 https://padlet.com/lkennedy8/Jan_Feb_2017/wish/145394493 2017-01-04 22:27:23 UTC https://padlet.com/lkennedy8/Jan_Feb_2017/wish/145394493 lkennedy8 https://padlet.com/lkennedy8/Jan_Feb_2017/wish/145394523 2017-01-04 22:27:58 UTC https://padlet.com/lkennedy8/Jan_Feb_2017/wish/145394523 lkennedy8 https://padlet.com/lkennedy8/Jan_Feb_2017/wish/145394669 2017-01-04 22:29:50 UTC https://padlet.com/lkennedy8/Jan_Feb_2017/wish/145394669 lkennedy8 https://padlet.com/lkennedy8/Jan_Feb_2017/wish/145394818 What if you discovered you could move objects with your mind? That's what happended to Faith Daniels in this suspenseful book. Faith discovers she is only one of few that have this power. Her power might be just want is needed to change the course of the future.]]> 2017-01-04 22:32:04 UTC https://padlet.com/lkennedy8/Jan_Feb_2017/wish/145394818 lkennedy8 https://padlet.com/lkennedy8/Jan_Feb_2017/wish/145395019 2017-01-04 22:35:27 UTC https://padlet.com/lkennedy8/Jan_Feb_2017/wish/145395019 lkennedy8 https://padlet.com/lkennedy8/Jan_Feb_2017/wish/147874994 Contemporary YA fiction about a teen with OCD...insightful, hopeful and easy, fast read.]]> 2017-01-18 16:55:29 UTC https://padlet.com/lkennedy8/Jan_Feb_2017/wish/147874994 lkennedy8 https://padlet.com/lkennedy8/Jan_Feb_2017/wish/147883282 Do you know what a "container" of info. is for MLA 8? Or that URLs (web addresses) are required but leave off http:// or that "web" or "print" are no longer used in Works Cited? Read about these and the other SEVEN changes to the updated MLA 8 (Modern Language Association) citation format rules; revised to keep up with new digital formats and let go of some tedium formatting.  BEST sources for MLA 8 Guidelines: watch the Youtube video link below and visit Online Writing Lab aka OWL Purdue's website... https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/22/
In-Text Citations MLA 8 using Easybib http://www.easybib.com/guides/citation-guides/mla-8/in-text-citations/]]> 2017-01-18 17:20:04 UTC https://padlet.com/lkennedy8/Jan_Feb_2017/wish/147883282 lkennedy8 https://padlet.com/lkennedy8/Jan_Feb_2017/wish/148422881 2017-01-20 17:15:42 UTC https://padlet.com/lkennedy8/Jan_Feb_2017/wish/148422881 lkennedy8 https://padlet.com/lkennedy8/Jan_Feb_2017/wish/148423020 2017-01-20 17:16:09 UTC https://padlet.com/lkennedy8/Jan_Feb_2017/wish/148423020 lkennedy8 https://padlet.com/lkennedy8/Jan_Feb_2017/wish/148423171 2017-01-20 17:16:36 UTC https://padlet.com/lkennedy8/Jan_Feb_2017/wish/148423171 lkennedy8 https://padlet.com/lkennedy8/Jan_Feb_2017/wish/148427055 Save this file for a quick overview of the changes in MLA 8.]]> 2017-01-20 17:28:19 UTC https://padlet.com/lkennedy8/Jan_Feb_2017/wish/148427055 lkennedy8 https://padlet.com/lkennedy8/Jan_Feb_2017/wish/148428822 Save this file for the complete guide to MLA 8]]> 2017-01-20 17:33:08 UTC https://padlet.com/lkennedy8/Jan_Feb_2017/wish/148428822